On New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home more good news about its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun. On Wednesday (Jan. 1), mission ...

"By studying the sun up close, we can better understand its impacts throughout our solar system, including on the technology we use daily on Earth, as well as learn about the workings of stars across ...

You can view five naked-eye solar system bodies simultaneously, moon-Venus-Saturn-Jupiter-Mars, spanning 159°. On Jan. 3, the 19 percent crescent has climbed nearly 5° to the upper left of Venus and ...

UFOs came to Washington (again), while NASA launched a new spacecraft to hunt for potential aliens in the solar system ... Take our year-end quiz to find out if you deserve a place among the ...

Astronomers believe that our solar system may still hold surprises, with ongoing efforts to find a hidden ninth planet, often referred to as Planet Nine or Planet X. If confirmed, this discovery ...

After years of braving the heat and dust of the inner solar system, taking blasts of solar energy and radiation that no spacecraft has ever seen, Parker Solar Probe continues to thrive." ...

a stream of particles that creates a protective bubble around the solar system. Parker’s data will also help scientists understand how the sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona ...

“By studying the Sun up close, we can better understand its impacts throughout our solar system, including on the technology we use daily on Earth and in space, as well as learn about the ...

The spacecraft flew within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the solar surface to "touch the sun" on Christmas Eve. NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive! Two days after a historic ...

The probe has already braved coronal mass ejections, major blowups that spew the sun’s plasma out into the solar system. The mission team is hoping for stormier solar seas that might illuminate ...

Editor's Note: This story was originally published Dec. 24 and updated Friday, Dec. 27 at 10:45 a.m. EST to confirm that the Parker Solar Probe ... probe's thermal protection system, told ...